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After eight years as a dispatcher, Tonl Owen decided to become
a police officer.
Owen out to make a difference
By VALERIE EAVES
Journal Staff Writer
Toni Owen said she likes
making a difference.
"I get such a fulfillment from
being able to do some little
something to help someone,"
she said, "There's a certain
feeling that you get when you
think that maybe you made the
situation better or maybe you
changed some conflict or
eased somebody's day. I don't
think I could do another job and
feel as good about it as I do
now."
Owen's job is patrol officer
for the Atlanta Police Depart-
ment. In fact, she's the only
female police officer in Cass
County. Besides being a patrol
officer, Owen's duties also in-
clude teaching D.A.R.E. (Drug
Awareness Resistance Educa-
tion) during the school year.
She became a police officer af-
ter working as a dispatcher at
APu tor eignt years.
"Law enforcement gets in
your blood once you've been
around it for a while," she
stated. "I didn't have any grand
ideas or visions that I could
change the world, but I do
believe that there are some
areas of law enforcement in
which a woman can do a better
job than a man. For example, a
small child that's lost. I think it's
easier for the child to walk up
to a woman, even one that
carries a gun, that it is to walk
up to a big, burly man.
"I'm not any more adept at
putting people at ease than the
men I work with are," she con-
tinued. "I just think that irf cer-
tain situations a female officer
is less intimidating than a male
officer."
Owen said the part of her job
that she enjoys most is the
people.
"No two people are the
same," she said. "It doesn't
make any difference how many
people I come in contact with,
they're always different. There
are always different cir-
cumstances. There isn't any-
thing routine about this job."
On the other hand, Owen
said traffic accidents are the
part of the job she likes least.
"Nobody likes to have to
work an accident," she stated.
"When you get the call, you al-
ways have this worry that it's
going to be worse than it is. I
always tend to prepare myself
for the worst and hope for the
best. When I'm responding to
an accident call, I visualize the
worst scenario. That helps me
prepare myself for what I have
to do."
Owen also said that the
hardest part about working ac-
cidents is that an officer has to
be aware of everything that has
happened, but he or she can't
become too affected by it. No
matter how bad the accident is,
the officer has to keep his or
her composure.
Being a working mother,
Owen said she also tries not to
take her job home with her.
"With other jobs, you put in
your eight-hour day and you
leave and that's the end of it,"
she said. "With this job, I'm on
call 24 hours a day. I can't
leave my job at the office.
Everybody takes their job
home with them sometimes, I
just try not to let it interfere with
my home life."
Owen and her husband,
Rick, have four children, Stacy,
19, Daniel, 15, and twins Kim
and Leigh Ann, 12.
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U.S. House approves Reach project funding
Funding for the Red River/Dain-
gerfield Reach Project was ap-
proved by the U.S. House of Rep-
resentatives Friday. The $3.2 mil-
lion will be used to continue the
study to determine if the naviga-
tion project is economically and
environmentally feasible.
A spokesman in the office of
U.S. Rep. Jim Chapman (D-
Sulphur Springs) said that the
study will bring government offi-
cials closer to knowing whether
the project will be good for the
area's economy, can be con-
structed in an economically effi-
Linden chamber asking
for donations for auction
Time is running out for area
residents to donate items for the
Linden Area Chamber of Com-
merce's auction to be held Satur-
day, June 15, at the old Woods
building in downtown Linden.
Proceeds from the sale will go
toward refurbishing the building.
The chamber hopes to turn the
building into something that can
be used and enjoyed by most Lin-
den residents.
The chamber is asking for
donations of any items that can be
sold at auction. So far, the cham-
ber has received donations of
TV's, radios, clocks, a copy
machine, a washer and dryer,
toys, lawn furniture, auto jacks,
and even a five-foot, bi-level, yard
fountain.
The Woods building will be
open Thursday and Friday, June 6
and 7, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. for
anyone wishing to drop off their
donated items. If those times
aren't convenient, call the cham-
ber office at 756-3106, Treece
Ferrell at 756-5668, or Dorothy
Durham at 756-7692 to set up a
time.
The auction will begin at 10
a.m. on June 15. Robby Manning
of Jefferson will be the auctioneer.
Concessions, including
sandwiches and drinks, will be
available.
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Journal staff photo by KYLE YOUNG
Speaking to the future
That's what Billy heldt said he was literally doing as commence-
ment speaker for the Queen City High School graduation Friday.
Heldt, of Bowie-Cass Electric Cooperative, told the graduates they
were stepping Into an exciting future, quite unlike anything they
had experienced thus far.
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Thanks to our Cass County area members,
Red River Federal Credit Union has to expand
our Atlanta office into a larger building.
June 17 we will open our new office at
209 W. Main (formerly Security Savings)
Our phone number will remain the same (903-796-4168)
New office hours are:
Lobby: 9 a.m. -5 p.m. Monday-Friday
Drive-Thru: 9 a.m.-6 p.m Monday-Friday
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cient manner and is safe for the
environment.
It the project passes those
tests, the planning of Daingerfield
Reach will be kept on track toward
a construction start in 1996, the
spokesman said.
Chapman serves on the Ap-
propriations Committee, which
has jurisdiction on the project,
which will extend the Red River's
navigation capacity from
Shreveport to Daingerfield. The
bill must now be approved by the
U.S. Senate.
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Public Notice
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (Company), in
accordance with the rules of the Public Utility Commission of Texas
(Commission), hereby gives notice of the Company's intent to imple-
ment a new schedule of telephone rates in Texas for residence
Custom Calling Services, effective August 1,1991, unless otherwise
determined by the Commission. The Company has filed an applica-
tion with the Commission to restructure and change the rates for
certain residence Custom Calling Services.
The Custom Calling Services affected by the Company's
application are optional telephone service arrangements that
provide the following features: Call Waiting, Call Forwarding,
Three \Nay Calling, Speed Calling 8 and Speed Calling 30.
The Company's proposal would increase the monthly rate for
the individual Call Waiting feature from $2.10 to $3.10 for residence
customers. Also, the rates for certain combinations of Custom
Calling Features (Call Waiting, Call Forwarding, Three-Way Calling
and Speed Calling-8) would increase or decrease depending upon
the combination of features. In addition, the company proposes to
obsolete the optional Custom Calling Service feature Speed Calling
30 for residence customers except for existing customers at their
existing locations. Following are the feature combinations and their
current and proposed rates.
One Feature Per Line
Current
Proposed
Call Waiting
$2.10
$3.10
Call Forwarding
2 10
2.10
Three-Vtoy Calling
2.10
2.10
Speed Calling-8
2 10
2 10
Two Features Per Line
Current
Proposed
Call Wfaiting, Call Forwarding
3.75
4.50
Call Vteiting, 3-Vteiy Calling
3.70
4.50
Call Waiting, Speed Calling-8
3.70
4.50
Call Forwarding, 3-V\fay Calling
3.70
3.50*
Call Forwarding, Speed Calling-8
3 70
3.50*
3-\Afey Calling, Speed Calling-8
3.70
3.50*
Three Features Per Line
Current
Proposed
Call VNfaiting, Call Forwarding
and 3-V\hy Calling
5.30
5.90
Call Vteiting, Call Forwarding
and Speed Calling-8
5.30
5.90
Call \Afaiting, 3-V\fey Calling
and Speed Calling-8
5.30
5.90
Call Forwarding, 3-Wtay Calling
and Speed Calling-8
5 30
4.90*
Four Features Per Line
Current
Proposed
Call Waiting, Call Forwarding
3-Vfey Calling, Speed Calling-8
690
7.30
Speed Calling 30
320
3.20''
"denotes rate decrease
* 'Southwestern Bell's application proposes to obsolete residence
Speed Calling 30 except for existing customers at their existing locations.
Most of the Company's residence customers in Texas who
subscribe to one or more of the Custom Calling Service features will
be affected by the proposed rate restructuring. It is expected that
the proposed rate restructuring of Custom Calling Services will in-
crease the Company's annual revenues by $15.9 million, which is an
increase of approximately one half of 1 percent in the Company^
adjusted revenue for the twelve-month period ending December
1990. The restructuring will result in an increase in the Custom
Calling Services rates for approximately 2.5 million residence cus-
tomers and rate decreases for approximately 15,000 residence
customers. Also, the obsolesence of the optional feature Speed
Calling 30 will affect approximately 156,000 residence customers.
Persons who wish to intervene or otherwise participate in these
proceedings should notify the commission as soon as possible. A
request to intervene, participate, or for further information should be
mailed to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, 7800 Shoal Creek
Boulevard, Suite 400N, Austin, Texas 78757. Further information
may also be obtained by calling the Public Utility Commission Public
Information Office at (512) 458-0256 or (512) 458-0221 teletypewriter
for the deaf.
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